Garment-supporter.



No. 825,922. PATENTED JULY 17, 1906. J. H. MINTIER.

GARMENT SUPP'ORTER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT,21,1905

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INVENTOR 9,74 @MW By UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 17, 1906.

Application filed eptember 21. 1905. Serial No. 279,522.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. h/TINTIER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Tashington, in the county of IVashington and State of Iowa,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in garment-supporters,and particularly to a device for supporting mensdrawers; and it consistsin certain peculiarities in the construction thereof, substantially ashereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the subjoinedclaim.

The object of the invention is to provide a device which may be producedat nominal cost, will be supported by the waistband of the wearerstrousers, and will most efficiently support the drawers, and which,moreover, may be worn without discomfort, will be in the main concealedfrom view, and may be readily applied and removed. This object is wellaccomplished by the construction illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank from which thesupporting portion of the device is produced. Fig. 2 is an edge view ofsaid supporting portion. Fig. 3 is a detail view in perspective of theslidable sleeve. Fig. 4 is a front view of the entire device. Figs. 5

and 6 are end views of the same with the sleeve in section and showingsaid sleeve at the extremes of its movement, respectively. Fig. 7 showsthe device in use.

The same characters of reference designate the same parts in the severalfigures.

A designates the blank from which the supporting portion of the deviceis produced. This blank is formed of a flat piece of springsteel orother material having the desired strength and resiliency. Its upperportion a may, if desired, be of ornamental configuration and may have asuitable ornamental design impressed therein or applied thereto. Belowsaid upper portion the body is formed with slits a on lines forming athree-sided spring-tonguo having a broad free end arranged within thespace between the body 1 and the hook 2. The inner surface of the hook 2may have a projection 4 to assist in holding the device in place on thetrousersband, said projection preferably arranged slightly above thespringtongue 3.

In the use of the device it is supported by the waistband -B of thetrousers, over which said hook 2 extends. The device is applied byarranging the waistbands of the drawers and trousers together and thenpushing the device down over the same into the position shown, or thewaistband of the drawers 0 may be secured by drawing it up into thespace between the spring-tongue 3 and the inner surface of the hook,during which movement said spring-tongue will yield sufficiently topermit said adjustment to be readily made.

Then the device has been pushed down to place or said waistband C hasbeen drawn up to its place, the resilience of the tongue will cause itsfree end to spring outward and tightly press the waistband of thedrawers against the inner surface of the hook 2, between which hook andspring said waistbands are thus clamped, while the whole device issupported from the one band.

The free end of the spring-tongue 3 is preferably formed to provideteeth 5, (indicated in Fig. 1,) which may be somewhat blunt to reduce toa minimum their liability to cut holes in the portions of the drawerswhich they engage. The waistband of the drawers is drawn over said freeend of the springtongue and is thus efficiently held against anytendency to fall, if such tendency be not fully avoided by the pressingof said waist band in the direction of the trousers-band B and hook 2.

While a spring-tongue exerting the lastnamed pressure alone or aspring-tongue having teeth at its free end and incapable of exerting anymaterial amount of outward pressure against the waistband (theresilience of the tongue in either event serving to facilitate theadjustment of the drawers-band) will in a measure serve the purposes ofthe present invention, it will nevertheless'be apparent that asupporting device which exerts outward pressure and has upwardsustaining force, and thereby presents two holding forces acting inplanes perpendicular to each other, will be of the greatest efiiciency,and such construction is thus greatly preferred.

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The device is provided with a sleeve 6, which is slidably mountedthereon and when adjusted upward will press the free end of said tongueback a proximately into the plane of the body 1 an will also lift thedrawersband from said tongue, thereby easily disengaging themfrom eachother. The lower end of the body 1 has pins 7 to support said sleeve inits lowest position and also has a cut-out portion 8 to facilitate theengagement of said sleeve by the thumb of the wearer.

Having thus described the invention, what I believe to be new,- anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A drawerssupporter, comprising a body having a hook at one end adaptedto support the device from the waistband of trousers and also having aspring-tongue which extends outward from said body and is adapted tohold the waistband of the drawers, and a slidable sleeve for freeingsaid draWers-banda'nd spring "from each other.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

JOHN H. MINTIER.

